Summary
Charlton Smith is a founder and senior full-stack/product engineer with a decade of experience building AI-native, user-facing products and live production systems. He has launched and operated multiple consumer and niche platforms—FaB Stats (2.9k+ users, 1.2M+ matches tracked), Old Ways Today, BenchPressOnly, and azoni.ai—combining FastAPI/React stacks, embeddings/RAG pipelines, and real-time telemetry. His background includes production automation and CI/CD at Capital One and T-Mobile, plus earlier work on motion-analysis research published at ACM CHI and a Kinect-based startup, reflecting a strong mix of applied research and operational shipping. Charlton also built autonomous multi-agent and Web3 tooling that handled thousands of requests per minute and designed MCP infrastructure for cross-agent context sharing. He looks for early-stage founding-engineer roles where product instincts, AI systems engineering, and hands-on ownership intersect. An interesting throughline: he treats his portfolio as a product—azoni.ai runs a custom RAG assistant and live GitHub telemetry that answers job-fit questions about his own work.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Washington
Associate of Arts (A.A.) Accounting and Finance, Associate of Arts (A.A.) Accounting and Finance at South Puget Sound Community College
Master of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering at Colorado Technical University
English